in the words of The Stand’s Tom Cullen: “my laws! M-O-O-N, that spells ‘offline.’”

sorry, guys. i just got busy.

i’m certainly not the first person to point out the ironically inverse relationship between one’s social networking activities and one’s feeling of interconnectedness with actual life. between facebooking, and tweeting, and myspacing, and blogging, i was so distracted by documenting what i was doing that it brought to a grinding halt my pace of actually doing it.

so i checked out.

killed my myspace account, since an inactive account misrepresents my business. i stopped blogging. stopped writing. tweeted once a week. [and i'm thinking of killing that account, too. mostly because i hate saying things like "i tweeted."] i keep the ole facebook up, mostly because it’s the one place where most of my people keep me up to date on their own lives, which are obviously more interesting to me than my own, probably because i’m not living them.

i re-engaged in my physical world. made a commitment to monotask. got kittens. did some film work. went to shows without a camera in hand. tore a third of my kitchen out with the help of my brilliant friend John. moved from a 400-sq. ft. room to a 72-sq. ft. room. fell in love. fell out of love. drove up some logging roads. had christmas. purged myself of nearly a ton of possessions and refuse. drank some vodka. got the back end of my photograph production process in order, incorporating an online print delivery system.

and i allowed myself to have dark days, to go dormant for the winter, as is natural with all perennial beings, so that i could have the strength to push up again when brighter days came around.